NEBRASKA's DEAD

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Names of Men From Our State Who Gave Their
Lives in the World War

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Killed in action..............349
Died of disease...............207
Died of wounds................160
Reported died of accident..... 19
Reported died ................ 16Total........................ 751

The following list contains all of the names
of Nebraska men who have fallen in the World War, as the
same have been announced by the bulletins of the war
department, together with their residence and the date of
the announcement from Washington. There is little doubt that
a number of errors have been made in the transmission and
publication of these names. Nevertheless it is the most
complete and accurate list which can now be obtained. At a
later time a more adequate account of these men from our
date who have laid down their lives in the world's great
cause will be published by the Historical Society.
We shall be glad to receive any corrections to
this list from persons having direct knowledge.

PROOFERS NOTES: There are
five lists following.

Use your browser's "Find" to search
for a surname. If you are seeking a surname that begins
with "Mc" or "Mac", try "M'" (M apostrophe) as well - two
surnames appear that way. They are alphabetized under the
OLD system where surnames beginning with "Mc" appear
before those starting with "Ma.."

Reminder - the date is for the
death annoucement from Washington, NOT the death date of
the individual.

REPORTED KILLED IN ACTION

Ackerman, Arthur Edward, Ong, Nov. 16, 1918.

Adams, Corp. Leslie, Superior, Nov. 27, 1918.

Adler, Corp. Adam A., Hastings, Nov. 30, 1918.

Alley, Lawrence A., Whitman, March 10, 1919.

Anderson, A., Hartington, Aug. 3, 1918.

Andrews, Jeff, Broken Bow, Nov. 30, 1918.

Arps, William, Millard, Dec. 3, 1918.

Asimakopolos, Demetrios, Alliance, Nov. 28,
1918.

August, Ernest R., Dorchester, Aug. 7, 1918.

Bailey, Edson J., Guide Rock, June 5, 1919.

Baird, Verner A., Brunswick, Nov. 27, 1918.

Banks, Leonard S., Farnam, Dec. 27, 1918.

Bartusiak, Andrew E., Elyria, Dec. 28, 1918.

Bastian, Anton C., Wayne, Oct. 16, 1918.

Beachler, Corley C., Reynolds, Dec. 24, 1918.

Beaver, Corp. Herbert, Wahoo, Jan. 17, 1919.

Beck, Andrew August, Hayes Center, Nov. 24,
1918.

Bendowsky, Frank, Grand Island, Oct. 14, 1918.

Bennett, Owen, Ellsworth, Dec. 12, 1918.

Bennington. Corp. Ralph A., Litchfield, Nov. 3,
1918.

Berryman, Roy B., Central City, Dec. 28, 1918.

Bette, Fred L., Grand Island, Dec. 14, 1918

Beyer, William, Palmer, Dec. 8, 1918.

Bilile, Irvia (sic) E., Ceresco, Oct. 28, 1918.

Bills, Claude W., Mill, Sept. 7, 1918.

Bishop, Leon, Mason City, Nov. 10, 1918.

Bitting, Arthur, Beatrice, Nov. 23, 1918.

Bohl, John, Lincoln, Dec. 24, 1918.

Bolton, Ervin I., York, Oct. 14, 1918.

Bond, Herman Lloyd, Benkelman, Oct. 15, 1918.

Boring, Corp. Glen, Ashland, Nov. 19, 1918.

Bose, F., David City, Aug. 12, 1918.

Bottelfson, Bernhardt, Hartington, Nov. 26,
1918.

Bowker, Harry C., Omaha, Nov. 4, 1918.

Boyle, Lieut. Junius I., Kearney, Jan. 4, 1919.

Branstetter, F., Howell, July 26, 1918,

Bray, Earl L., Velma, Nov. 29, 1918.

Brewer, James H., Greeley, Sept. 8, 1918.

Bright, Lewis A., Red Cloud, Oct. 28, 1918.

Brinda, Leo, Valentine, Nov. 29, 1918.

Brown, Corp. Howard E., Lincoln, Dec. 10, 1918.

Burke, Lieut. Walter E., Maywood, Dec. 31, 1918.

Butler, Homer J., Midvale, Oct. 15, 1918.

Cain, Henry Earl, Anselmo, Oct. 20, 1918.

Carlson, August L., Bertrand, Nov. 28, 1918.

Carlson, Frick M., Omaha, Nov. 27, 1918.

Carlson, John, Gothenburg, Nov. 29, 1918.

Carter, Leora, Fairbury, Oct. 14, 1918.

Cather, Lieut. Grossmer, Bladen, June 7, 1918.

Cessel, Gunnar, Ainsworth, Dec. 8, 1918.

Clark, Clifford S., Burwell, Dec. 12, 1918.

Cone, Corp. William A., Ashland, Dec. 10, 1918.

Conley, Leonard, Omaha, Dec. 17, 1918.

Cracken, Corp. Chas. M., Springview., Oct. 20,
1918.

Crum, Burl C., Decatur, Nov. 10, 1918.

Cushman, Charles, Broken Bow, Nov. 11, 1918.

Davis, Sidney F., Oxford, Feb. 1, 1919.

Day, W. LeRoy, Blue Springs, July 4, 1918.

Debolt, Sergt. William, Bassett, Nov. 21, 1918.

Deck, Ernest Frederick, Hocking, Oct. 3, 1918.

Dehart, Hugh F., Humboldt, Dec. 24, 1918.

Dem, Rudolph, Omaha, Dec. 18, 1918.

Devere, N. L., South Sioux City, Aug. 8, 1918.

Dittmer, H. H., Clarks, Aug. 11, 1918.

Dubuque, Corp. Bertie L., Lincoln, Dec. 10,
1918.

Durham, Oliver F., Naponee, March 21, 1919.

Egle, William, Palisade, Aug. 21, 1918.

Ehemonski, John, Panama, Dec. 14, 1918.

Eisele, David W., Roca, Feb. 1, 1919.

Elander, Hedge, Brady, Dec. 8, 1918.

Emory, Cyril A., Omaha, Nov. 14, 1918.

Erickson, Carl M., Bladen, Nov. 29, 1918.

Farley, Fletcher L., Bancroft, Sept. 28, 1918.

Farnsworth, Carl, Litchfield, Oct. 3, 1918.

Fierstein, Willie, Campbell, Dec. 7, 1918.

Finch, J. R., Bradshaw, July 26, 1918.

Fischer, Herman H., Hardy, Oct. 21, 1918.

Flansburg, Lieut. Robert H., Lincoln, June 26,
1918.

Flesner, Rikus H., Battle Creek, Oct. 11, 1918.

Flood, Sergt. Frank G., Battle Creek, Jan. 30,
1919.

Florom, Marion W., Stockville, Oct. 14, 1918.

Fogel, Lester 0., Omaha, Dec. 2, 1918.

Folda, Corp. Albin, Clarkson, Dec. 3, 1918.

Forsman, Fritz C., Omaha, Sept. 10, 1918.

Foster, Corp. Sidney Ray, Kennedy, Dec. 2,1918.

Fountain, Roger Glenn, Broken Bow, Sept. 28,
1918.

Furch, John K., Omaha, Jan, 26, 1919.

Garner, William L., Seward, Jan. 10, 1919.

Gill, Frederick J., North Platte, Nov. 30, 1918.

Gilmer, John E., Central City, Oct. 3, 1918.

Godberson, Herman, Millard, Dec. 14, 1918.

Gohr, Harry, Fairmont, Dec. 2, 1918.

Golden Horace F., Gothenburg, Nov. 21, 1918.

Goldhahn, Nealie L., Magnet, Sept. 29, 1918.

Goldner, Corp. John H., Omaha, Jan. 13, 1919.

Goodwin, J. C., Marengo, Mar. 24, 1919.

Graham, Samuel N., York, Nov. 10, 1918.

Graves, Theodore E., Gothenburg, Nov. 21, 1918.

Greiner, Frank, Bloomfield, Dec. 12, 1918.

Grimmels, John A., Omaha, Jan. 15, 1919.

Groat, William, Bloomfield, Oct. 14, 1918.

NOTE: 3 "H" entries were not in
alphabetical order, & have been marked with * at end
of line.

Hablitzel, Jacob Jr., Eustis, Sept. 28, 1918.

Hajek, Frank J., Whitman, Jan. 17, 1919.

Halstead, Roy G., Blair, July 29, 1918.

Hansen, Chris, McCook, Oct. 28, 1918.

Hansen, Willard U., Wauneta, Oct. 28,1918.

Harty, James J., Hubbell, Feb. 20, 1919.

Hawes, Will, Deloit, Nov. 18, 1918.

Heninger, Edwin W., Tilden, Oct, 28, 1918.

Heins, John H., Chalco, Oct. 20, 1918.

Henson, Sergt. Richard M., Omaha, Nov. 30, 1918.

Herman, Corp. William C., Alliance, Dec. 12,
1918.

Herrold, Carl E., Seward, Oct. 4, 1918.

Hestking, Tlmon (sic), Cedar Rapids, Sept. 7,
1918.

Higgins, Edward L., Stella, Dec. 3, 1918.

Hildebrand, Cecil M., Beatrice, Feb. 14, 1919.

Harmon, Glen W., Chappell, Aug. 6, 1918.*

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Harms, Ufkil, Humboldt, Nov. 23, 1918.*

Harris, Clark W., Lincoln, Nov. 3, 1918.*

Hildebrand, William, Blue Hill, Oct. 10, 1918

Hilton, Howard E., Madrid, Oct. 28, 1918.

Hodges, James S., Overton, Aug. 9, 1918.

Hoeppner, Herbert O., Osmond, Oct. 12, 1918.

Hoffman, Wagoner Ralph, Lincoln, Nov. 29, 1918.

Holmes, Oliver W., Beaver Crossing, Oct, 17,
1918.

Holtgrewe, Carl J., Lorton, Aug. 19, 1918.

Holz, Carl, Guide Rock, Oct. 4, 1918.

Hood, Lewis Leonard, Minatare, Nov. 15, 1918.

Horn, Luther, Holdrege, Oct., 23, 1918.

Horroun, Alvin B., Haigler, Oct. 4, 1918.

Hunt, Edward, Ashton, Sept. 11, 1918.

Hunt, Paul George, Kearney, Sept. 13, 1918.

Hurlburt, Clarence O., Fairbury, Oct. 14, 1918.

Imhoff, William B., Bostwick, Dec. 24, 1918.

Jacks, Robert H., Plattsmouth, Dec. 12, 1918.

Johnson, Arthur J., Valparaiso, Dec. 10, 1918.

Johnson, George S., Big Springs, Jan. 26, 1919.

Johnson, Bugler Otto V., Sunderland, Dec. 12,
1918.

Johnson, R., Bridgeport, Aug. 3, 1918.

Jones, Floyd E., Madison, Dec. 14, 1918.

Jordan, Fred Carl, Herman, Nov. 17, 1918.

Jordan, John Henry, Brady, Nov. 14, 1918.

Kallemeyn, George E., University Place, Oct. 19,
1918.

Kaltas, G., Omaha, Aug. 8, 1918.

Keezer, Charley A., Ericson, Nov. 26, 1918.

Keith, James W., Omaha, Sept. 28, 1918.

Kelling, Corp. William, Hardy, Nov. 17, 1918.

Kent, Corp. James E., Lawrence, Nov. 25, 1918.

Kerl, Chester R., Pawnee, Nov. 27, 1918.

Kerns, Hugh J., Plattsmouth, Nov. 22, 1918.

King, Howard S., Omaha, Dec. 7, 1918.

Kinnier, Corp. Thomas S., Primrose, Nov. 12,
1918.

Kintigh, Roy D., Kilgore, Nov. 22, 1918.

Klegin, Lawrence F., Pierce, Nov. 29, 1918.

Kline, Charles L., Oxford, Oct. 15, 1918.

Kline, Lloyd W., Wauneta, Nov. 12, 1918.

Kline, Roy C., Aurora, Dec. 13, 1918.

Knobe, Corp. William E., Falls City, May 12,
1919.

Knobel, Ray D., Elm Creek, Oct. 20, 1918.

Koca, Frank B., Tobias, Dec. 6, 1918.

Koch, Henry J., Hastings, Nov. _1 (?), 1918.

Kopecky, Charles, Bruno, June 5, 1919.

Korff, Carl T., Hartington, Dec. 9, 1918.

Korinek, James J., Omaha, Nov. 25, 1918.

Kregger, William J., Harvard, Dec. 8, 1918.

Kriewald, Samuel H., North Loup, Nov. 28, 1918.

Kroma, Oldrlch, Omaha, Oct. 24, 1918.

Krupinsky, Arthur, Fremont, Nov. 9, 1918,

Kruse, Fred, Grand Island, Jan. 14, 1919.

Kuehnert, Walter K. A., Lyons, Oct. 8, 1918.

Kundson, Alvin, Round Valley, Nov. 10, 1918.

Lafrenz, Corp. Julius H., Tekamah, Oct. 28,
1918.

Lanning, Maurice, Cozad, Dec. 10, 1918.

Larkowski, Ted, Dannebrog, Sept. 28, 1918.

Larson, Lars P., Benson, Dec. 15, 1918.

Layton, William A., Arnold, Jan. 2, 1919.

Lehr, Manderson, Albion, Aug. 29, 1918.

Lembke, John F., Elkhorn, Nov. 30, 1918.

Lewis, Milton Oliver, Fairfield, Sept. 11, 1918.

Lewis, Sergt. Taylor E., Superior, Oct. 28,
1918.

Linder, Henry E., Omaha, Dec. 12, 1918.

Lisenbee, Joseph Irwen, Omaha, Nov. 16, 1918.

Little, George, Crab Orchard, Nov. 16, 1918.

Little, William T., Pawnee, Nov. 7, 1918.

Lott, Peter M., Fairmont, Oct. 14, 1918.

Lovell, Norman E., Springfield, Oct. 20, 1918.

Lund, Corp. Lawrence N., Hooper, Nov. 26, 1918.

Lyons, Corp. Earl C., Lincoln, Dec. 9, 1918.

NOTE: Two of the following probably "Mc" names
actually appear with "M'" (M, apostrophe).

"FORT ATKINSON, OR
COUNCIL BLUFFS"
The following, account of the first organized
society of white people and the first periodical journal
published in the territory now called Nebraska, was printed,
as an editorial, in the Missouri Intelligencer of December
10, 1822. The Intelligencer was published at Franklin, which
was situated on the north bank of the Missouri river, two
hundred and five miles, by the river, above St. Louis, and
at that time important as the initial and outfitting point
of the Santa Fe Trail.
This story is part of a large volume of similar
earliest history of "the Nebraska country" which has been
collected, recently, from libraries in St. Louis and
Columbia, Mo., by the undersigned for the Historical
Society.
After a rather brief existence - from 1813
to1827 - Fort Atkinson was abandoned for a more practicable
location, and Fort Leavenworth was established in its stead.
The site of Fort Atkinson is now comprised in the town of
Fort Calhoun, sixteen miles north of Omaha. - Albert
Watkins.
This spot, notwithstanding its remoteness, is
daily growing on the public attention, and claiming a more
general share of the national interest. Cut off, as it is,
by a wide tract of uninhabited country, from the extreme
bounds of western population, or placed, to use the
felicitous language of Watts, on "earth's remotest bounds,"
yet it is growing into a place of great and deserved
notoriety, not only as an important point in the great
system of military defenses, planned by our present
intelligent and national eyed secretary of war, but as a
place that is now, or soon will be, the source of the
emanation of science, and the seat of the genius of
literature.
This place received the name we have placed
second in order in our head line from the circumstance of
Lewis and Clark having, during their halt there in 1806
[August 3, 1804], held a council with the
neighboring Indians, remained without further notice, until
it was discovered to be a point of the first importance, in
securing the safety of the growing west, against the
probable incursions or our yet uncivilized western brethren,
and also a point of fine check against the encroachments Of
our neighbors the gentlemen of the N. W. Company
[British].
In addition to the views already exhibited, and
in which we of the west feel so lively an interest, it has
been attempted to enforce the oft contested theory of
combining a system of agricultural improvements, with a
system of military dicipline and defense....
The trust of trying an experiment of such moment
to the nation, and of such doubtful result, was entrusted to
the charge of General Henry Atkinson. . . .
Whether it were the mere "fortune of war," or
the genius of good selection, we know not, but so it has
happened, that there fell to that post a peculiar allotment
of talents and industry - of talents both natural and
acquired - of industry both corporeal and mental. It seems
difficult to imagine how an expedition, of the complex
character of that of which we speak, could have been better
conducted, or could have terminated in a result more
grateful to the feelings of those who planned, or of those
who executed it.
Passing over the Military Strength of the place,
of which

fess ourselves but inadequate judges, and of the
clear demonstration which has been afforded of the
possibility of efficiently combining military with
agricultural pursuits (a demonstration that may be called
an era of "glad aspect") we crave the attention of our
readers to a few features in the establishment of a moral
aspect.
The officers of the establishment,
notwithstanding the weight of duties imposed on them by
the plan of the government, and notwithstanding the
spareness of their numbers, have attended, with no little
credit to themselves, to subjects of the highest
scientific, literary and moral concernment.
Several of the gentlemen connected with the
military mission (and especially one, whose name we
regret his modesty obliges us to conceal) have, from the
first establishment of the post been engaged in a liberal
and laborious investigation of the natural history of the
surrounding country - others in depicting its topography
- ascertaining, and recording, for the information and
improvement of the civilized world, the laws, manners,
customs, etc. of the aboriginal tribes who inhabit the
vast fertile tract in whose vicinity they are
located.
Not content with these exertions, the
gentlemen have established among themselves various means
of mutual excitement, and various modes of public
improvement. They have, as we are credibly informed, a
debating society, in which questions of the highest moral
and literary interest are discussed, with powers that
would well befit a Lyceum in that East whence knowledge
travelled to our remote west, and a reading room,
furnished with a variety and a value of literary labor
that ought but little to be expected in this remote
section of the western hemisphere.
But the circumstance which, among all these
things, has most excited both our wonder and our
approbation is, that these gentlemen have established
among themselves, A WEEKLY JOURNAL, published in
manuscript, on a royal sheet, elegantly and correctly
executed in point of chirography; and in point of
original matter not exceeded by the first eastern
publications of the day. We have received two numbers of
this original Journal - original in its plan, and, so far
at least as our limited knowledge extends, original in
its execution. It is a source of real regret to us that
the conditions on which we obtained access to this
curious journal of the doings, opinions, and feelings of
an intelligent and secluded people, precludes us from
honorably spreading some portion at least of its contents
before our readers. We can, however, truly say, that we
have perused the columns of the "Military Journal" with
pleasure and interest; that we hail its appearance as a
proof, in addition to those we have already had, of the
morals, literature, and cultivated taste of the "men of
war" stationed at Fort Atkinson, and we cannot but
express the regret we feel, that, from the remoteness of
our situation, the want of the Faustian power, or the
modesty of the Contributors, the circulation of the
"Military Journal" should extend to so small a portion of
that country which derives honor from being the seat of
such talent.

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soon.
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Kelly, Gothenburg.

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endeavor in active war service.
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4693 Cleveland Ave., San Diego, Cal.
We held a Nebraska picnic here on the 15th of
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hundred present. Your humble servant was chosen to preside
and we carried thru an impromptu and interesting program,
which was responded to by the ready talent from Nebraska.
Prof. Oberkotter, principal of the Grant school and a
graduate of Doane College, was elected president of the
Nebraska Association.
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H. Culver.

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VOLUME XIX SOON OUT
Proof on Volume XIX of the State Historical
Society volumes was read last January. Shortage of press
room help has delayed its printing. It is now nearly ready
to be sent out. It contains about 350 pages with many
illustrations. Important articles on little known events In
Nebraska history are in the volume.